Marjorie
Aaron
Marjorie presented a negotiation workshop for the Grassroots Leadership
Academy, a not-for-profit city sponsored organization that seeks to provide
education at the community level for Cincinnati neighborhoods and potential
leaders. She also attended the Winter Meeting of the CPR Institute for
Dispute Resolution where she is an Academic member and a member of CPR's
Ethics Commission and she has been asked to serve on a commission of the
ABA Section of Dispute Resolution, examining the issue of Unauthorized
Practice of Law (UPL) and mediation. She serves as representative of the
Section's Mediation Committee.

Marianna
Bettman
Marianna had op ed pieces on school vouchers and on merit selection of
judges published both in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and in the
Cincinnati Enquirer. The merit selection piece in the Plain
Dealer was followed by an editorial in which Marianna is prominently
featured, and called a "respected expert". The editorial states that by
Marianna joining Chief Justice Moyer in endorsing merit selection, "proponents
of merit selection have acquired powerful and credible allies." The op
ed piece on merit selection was also posted electronically and in print
in Ohio Lawyer's Weekly.

Marianna and Governor Gilligan co-authored an article called "Public Funds
Should be used for Public Schools" in Primer, published by the
New Ohio Institute, an environmental think thank. The article in Primer
is a shorter version of the article at www.newohio.org.

WVXU aired Marianna's commentaries on the U.S. Supreme Court decision
on random drug checkpoints (City of Indianapolis v. Edmond), the
6th circuit decision on the Cleveland voucher program (Simmons-Harris
v. Zelman), the Ohio Supreme Court decision on the forcible medication
of involuntarily institutionalized mentally ill persons (Steele v.
Hamilton County Community Mental Health Board) and on merit selection
of judges.

Joseph
Biancalana
Joseph's article, "Actions of Covenant 1200-1330," was accepted for publication
in the Law & History Review.

Paul Caron
Paul attended the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco and the ABA Section
on Taxation Mid-Year Meeting in Scottsdale, Arizona. He published three
issues of Tax Law and Policy Abstracts (co-edited with Joe Bankman)
(www.ssrn.com).

Jack
Chin
Jack spoke on the "Talk of the City" show on WCIN on the legal issues
surrounding the election.

The following appeared in Asian Week in a "Hats Off to Heroes in
2000" section:

"Professor
Jack Chin and his law students on the University of Cincinnati Immigration
and Nationality Law Review, who are working to persuade Wyoming, Florida
and New Mexico to repeal their anti-Asian alien land laws. In the first
half of the 20th century, a number of states had laws restricting the
rights of aliens ineligible to citizenship to own land as well as enjoy
other privileges, such as business and professional licenses. Aliens ineligible
to citizenship was a code word for Asians, who, not being free white persons
or persons of African nativity or descent could not naturalize under the
federal immigration laws at the time. While most states repealed their
laws over the years, Florida, New Mexico and Wyoming have not. The alien
land laws in these states are not enforced and unconstitutional, but Chin
and his students and allies are using this campaign as a lesson in history
and activism. "

Rafael
Gely
Rafael's article "Restricting Public Employees' Political Activities:
Good Government or Partisan Politics," was published in 37 Houston
Law Review 775 (2000) (with T. Chandler).

Bert Lockwood
Bert wrote an opinion piece in the January issue of the Cincinnati
Bar Association Report calling for the elimination of the Electoral
College. Bert was also a guest on the live call-in program "Talk-To-America"
broadcast around the world by Voice of America. The subject was the new
Permanent International Criminal Court.

Brad
Mank
Brad has been invited to write a book chapter on the environmental rights
of indigenous peoples for a treatise on Human Rights law that will be
edited by David Barnhizer and published by Ashcraft.

Barbara
McFarland
Barbara attended the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. As the next
step in planning workshops aimed at increasing the college's bar passage
rate, Barbara attended several sessions geared toward the development
of skills workshops.

Jim published Vols. 1 and 2 of Accident Prevention Manual, National
Safety Council, as well as the 3rd edition of Federal Information
Disclosure (2 vol. West). Jim published supplements for Food &
Drug Administration (West) and State & Local Government Solid Waste
Management (West). Jim received positive peer-reviewer feedback on
his manuscript for "Crisis Management in the Food Industry", (Aspen).

Jim's article, "Administrative Law Trends for the Environment in 2001:
Watching the Potato Sack Race," was accepted by the ABA SEER Environmental
Trends newsletter. It discusses the impact of administrative law trends
of judicial review upon environmental policy setting (speculating on the
Bush-Whitman EPA rollbacks). He also published an article in the Journal
of Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society regarding FDA control
of drug advertising after recent D.C. Circuit decisions.

Jim was also in articles in the Philadelphia Inquirer (Medical
Device Malpractice) and St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Firestone Recalls).

Michael
Solimine
Michael attended a conference in Washington D.C. on Reform of State Judicial
Articles in State Constitutions, sponsored by the Center for State Constitutional
Studies at Rutgers-Camden. He also presented a paper, "The Failed Promise
of Judicial Elections in Ohio," at a symposium on judicial elections at
Capital University Law School. The proceedings will be published in that
school's Law Review.

Suja
Thomas
Suja was prominently featured in an office.com article on women attorneys.
(www.office.com) Suja attended the
AALS Annual Conference in San Francisco and made a brief presentation
on a panel called "Advancing the Legal Academy: Strategies for Recruiting
People of Color as Law Professors" in place of Jack Chin, who was unable
to attend the AALS Annual Meeting.

Glen
Weissenberger
Glen attended the AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. At the AALS meeting,
he concluded his term on the Advisory Board of the AALS Evidence Section.

Glen's horse, Disappearance, ran first at Thistle Downs. An article relating
to Glen's involvement in the International Brotherhood of Magicians appeared
in The Wall Street Journal. Glen has also been nominated to serve
on the Board of Trustees of the International Brotherhood of Magicians.
He also continues to serve as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Greater
Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky Film Commission and he attended the premier
of Traffic.